News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:PolarDB, yet another open source database system based on... by killingtime74 on Sunday May 30, 2021 @06:01AM (#27332059)
Why wouldn’t I use cockroachDB?
Re:PolarDB, yet another open source database system based on... by mb4nck on Sunday May 30, 2021 @09:34AM (#27333130)
I don't know, maybe you should.

CockroachDB seems to be a distributed database system written in Go which has implemented a Postgres query/wire protocol compatibility layer.

PolarDB is a Postgres fork actually using the Postgres codebase and extending it to a distributed database system. Maybe one day they can unfork because it's possible to implement PolarDB on top of Postgres as an extension and/or they contribute/get all their changes into Postgres core.

Re:PolarDB, yet another open source database system based on... by rad_gruchalski on Sunday May 30, 2021 @01:09PM (#27334695)
Maybe because you need the as-a-service aspect and the licensing does not allow it.